Posts Tagged ‘Swings’

Wow, my last online chart of the month post. Only 10 more days and it’s goodbye Kpop for me. Anyway, here are Gaon’s chart for the month of November of the year 2010. Congratulations to Heo Guk. Novemeber was truly his month. Still can’t believe he beat 2AM and SNSD.

I’m very surprise that Baek Ji Young is doing so well last November. I never felt the impact of her song in the public. Well, maybe it’s one of those songs that is popular but music shows never took notice of it. JYJ and Hot Potato’s Confession is an example.

Heo Gak’s November online chart domination seems to be eminent. Superstar K Season 2 must be really popular, the fact that the winner was able to overthrow SNSD and 2AM. This month, we all thought 2AM or SNSD will be dominating. The result is surely surprising.

Heo Gak once again prevail on another online chart. I think he will sweep all the online charts. It’s only a shame that SNSD’s album sales prevented Heo Gak from winning in music shows. But oh well, winning in music shows isn’t really a big deal. On another note, Heo Gak is a strong contention for newcomer of the year but I don’t know if he has a chance against C.N.Blue considering the first just recently debut.

Mnet’s Superstar K winner Heo Gak apparently made an impact in Korea. Three songs from this guy made it to the Top 20 of the November 2010 chart of Cyworld. Don’t really know this guy but congrats still. Topping Cyworld is no piece of cake.

After the Bugs 2010 Top 100 was released a few days ago, I’ve been reading a lot of comments stating certain online charts are more reliable and some are garbage. And that music shows are such a big deal. Just to clear the misunderstanding of these people that are obviously new to Kpop, the most reliable online chart out there is Cyworld. If a song top Cyworld, you can guarantee that the song is popular in the nation of Korea.

Music shows are unreliable because it can be rigged by fans. As I’ve always been saying in my posts, music shows rely so heavily on album sales. And it is a known fact, though undocumented, that idol fans, especially those included in large fan group, buys a number of the same album week after week to get their idols on top. You might say it’s normal but we’re talking about here popularity. It might be popular to the fan club but in the nation, it’s a not. A delusion made by some hard core fans. An example that happened this year is Super Junior. I apologize to ELFS, nothing against them. Bonamana won numerous music show awards during it’s promotion but if you go to Korea, it’s not really that known.

So to new Kpop fans, be humble and logical. Winning in Music Bank isn’t really a big deal. Again, be humble. And if you want to know what songs are a hit, go to cyworld. Be very scared if your idols are winning in music bank but doesn’t even chart in cyworld. Cough 2pm cough. I apologize for this brutal honesty. But what I stated is the truth.